Jana Toom

Member of the European Parliament

Yana Toom. Cyber defence: Paet in a china shop

At the last Strasbourg plenary session, with 476 votes in favour, the European Parliament approved the report on cyber defence of Urmas Paet (Reform P...

Centre Party's Toom announces ethics code, wishes to maintain party unity

Estonian MEP and Centre Party (Keskerakond) member Yana Toom has unveiled a Code of Ethics at a recent meeting of the party's board, which address...

Yana Toom: I'd prefer an Estonian Ministerial role to working in Brussels

Centre Party (Keskerakond) MEP Yana Toom was interviewed by ERR's Toomas Sildam recently, and fielded questions on topics including her national i...

Toomas Sildam: Reform making Toom's citizenship an issue could backfire

The Reform Party's recent Bill aimed at changing the law so that those awarded Estonian citizenship on the basis of special merit could be stripped of...

Massimo La Torre: ‘You cannot deny nationality without infringing upon basic human rights’

In February Tallinn University hosted an academic conference “Europe in Hard Times – What's to be Done?” with the aim to promote a sophisticated debat...

Estonian MEP, two Latvian MEPs remind European Parliament of topic of stateless residents

Estonian MEP Yana Toom and two leftist MEPs from Latvia - Andrejs Mamikins and Tatjana Zdanoka - have sent a New Year's card to 299 members of the Eur...

MEP Yana Toom's interview on the topic of fake news on Romanian TV show BE EU

On 25 November 2017, member of the European Parliament Ms Yana Toom gave her opinion on the topic of fake news to Romanian TV show BE EU. In the Eur...

Handshake on the Elbe? Ft. Yana Toom, Estonian MEP

For all the talk about Russian meddling in European politics, it's long been the United States that has chaperoned the decision-making on the continen...

EU audiovisual reform will create a nanny state

Twenty-eight versions of Facebook, a nanny state and censorship of the internet: those could be the consequences if the European Parliament's position...

Islamic fundamentalism, “simple decisions” and European values

For the past year I have participated in several debates in European Parliament concerned with tackling Islamic terrorism. My interest in the topic wa...